Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Skills help take your AI Agents to the next level. This workshop will cover what skills are, how to create custom skills for yourself and your team, and how to publish them to the community.
Join us in the community chat → community.vercel.com/live
00:00 | Introduction & Welcome
03:00 | Context Engineering vs. Prompt Engineering
05:26 | Exploring Community Skills (skills.sh)
07:13 | The "npm Moment" for AI Skills
09:04 | Passive vs. Active Skills (Lazy Loading)
10:21 | Q&A: When to use Skills vs. MCPs
12:07 | Q&A: Agent-to-Agent Discovery & Teams
16:18 | The Anatomy of a Skill (Markdown & Frontmatter)
18:41 | Example: Handling Versioning with Vercel Workflow Skill
22:13 | Demo: Creating a Personal "Writing Style" Skill
25:11 | Q&A: Agents.md vs. Skills (Forcing vs. Lazy Context)
31:42 | Publishing Skills to GitHub
35:21 | Q&A: How Many Examples Does an LLM Need?
38:18 | Q&A: Testing & Evals for Skills
44:28 | Demo: Generating Videos with Remotion & Gist Skill
47:22 | Demo: Generating Landing Pages with Gist Design Skill
49:29 | Demo: Using AI Teams to Create Variations
52:51 | Demo: Debugging with Agent Browser Skill
56:35 | Demo: Publishing a Skill with publish-skill
58:14 | Demo: Skills Primer (Pre-loading Context)
01:02:35 | Outro
Skills help take your AI Agents to the next level. This workshop will cover what skills are, how to create custom skills for yourself and your team, and how to publish them to the community.
Join us in the community chat → community.vercel.com/live
00:00 | Introduction & Welcome
03:00 | Context Engineering vs. Prompt Engineering
05:26 | Exploring Community Skills (skills.sh)
07:13 | The "npm Moment" for AI Skills
09:04 | Passive vs. Active Skills (Lazy Loading)
10:21 | Q&A: When to use Skills vs. MCPs
12:07 | Q&A: Agent-to-Agent Discovery & Teams
16:18 | The Anatomy of a Skill (Markdown & Frontmatter)
18:41 | Example: Handling Versioning with Vercel Workflow Skill
22:13 | Demo: Creating a Personal "Writing Style" Skill
25:11 | Q&A: Agents.md vs. Skills (Forcing vs. Lazy Context)
31:42 | Publishing Skills to GitHub
35:21 | Q&A: How Many Examples Does an LLM Need?
38:18 | Q&A: Testing & Evals for Skills
44:28 | Demo: Generating Videos with Remotion & Gist Skill
47:22 | Demo: Generating Landing Pages with Gist Design Skill
49:29 | Demo: Using AI Teams to Create Variations
52:51 | Demo: Debugging with Agent Browser Skill
56:35 | Demo: Publishing a Skill with publish-skill
58:14 | Demo: Skills Primer (Pre-loading Context)
01:02:35 | Outro
